The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-26
AIEgsou wtTnA MORAL


When Wul Our Eyes be Opened 70 this Grsa
National CalamitgY
The year 1856 played sad hsyGc witt
many prominent men of our country.
Many Of them died witlort warning
passing away apparently in tie full flush o
Others were sick hot a compaativel
short time. We turn to our files and arr
astonished to find that most Of them died o
apopleXy. of paralysis, of nervous prost}a
ton, OF malignant blood humor, of Bright.
disease, of heart disease, of kidney disease
OF rheumatism OF Of pneumonia,
1t is sin yalar that most OF our prominent
men die ui these Disorders. Any iourualis
who watches the Telegraph reports will b.
as;onish d at tie number of prominent
! vic inns Of the disorders.
Many statements have appeared in ON
/ paper with otdefS to the effect that the dis.
eases that carried oil so many prominent
men in 1856 are really one disease, taking
different names according to the location OF
the fatal effect
When a valuable horse perlshes, It be
comes the nine days talk of the sporting
world. aud yet thousands of ordinary horses
are dying every day, their aggregate loss Is
enormous, and yet their death creates nc
comment
death Of prominent men cre.tes comment.
especially when it can be shown that one
unsuspected disease carries off most of
them, AMI vet vast numbers of ordinary
men and women die before their time every
year from the same cause"
II is said it the blood is kept free from
uric acid, that heart disease paralysis,
nervous prostration, pneumonia rhuema-
tism. and many cases of consumption.
would never be known This uric acid, we
are told, is the waste of the system, and it
is the duty of the kidney, to remove this
waste,
We are told that If the kidneys are main
tained in perfect health, the uric, kidney.
acid is kept ont of the blood, and these sui
1en and universal diseases CAUSED by uric
acid viii, in large measure. disappear.
But how shall tins be done? 1t is folly
to treat effects. If there is any known way
OF getting at the cause. that way should be
known TO tie public. We believe that
Warmers safe cure of which so much has
been written, and so much talked of bv the
public generally. and which can be obtained
Of dealers everywhere is now recognized hy
impartial physicians and the public as the
one specific for such diseases.
Berause public attention has been directed
to this great remedy by means of advertis-
remedy. We cannot see how Mr. Warner
could Immediately benefit the public in any
other way, and his valuable specific should
not be condemned because some nosirums
have come before the public in the same
way, any more than that all doctors should
he condemned because so many of them are
incompetent.
Ii is astonishing what COOL opinicns you
hear on every side of that great remedy. and
public opinion thus based upon an actual
experience has all the weight and import
lnCe Of absolute truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid In
the blood invites pneumonia aud rheuma-
tism, and there IS not man who does not
dread these monsters Of disease; but he
need have no fear of them, we are told, if !
he rid the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may sound !
like an advertisement, and be rejected as |
such 10y unlhinking people, but we believe
they are the truth, and as such should be |
spoken by every truth-loving newspaper.